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Dmitry67
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For a long time I was thinking that even SM has lack of deep philosophic insight, it is self-consistent and, within its own framework, can answer all questions, making all paradoxes non-issues. As a reminder, in SM macroscopic events are atomic, while all other stuff (fields, real particles, virtual particles) are ”just math” to calculate the correlation between the macroscopic events.
But what’s about the very early universe? When the very first macroscopic event did occur? Not sooner than the very first system with some sort of ‘memory’ was created. But to allow the existence of such systems, Universe must cool down enough so some systems will be away from the thermal equilibrium.
So the first seconds, minutes, and may be even years of our Universe is beyond the scope of SM.
But what’s about the very early universe? When the very first macroscopic event did occur? Not sooner than the very first system with some sort of ‘memory’ was created. But to allow the existence of such systems, Universe must cool down enough so some systems will be away from the thermal equilibrium.
So the first seconds, minutes, and may be even years of our Universe is beyond the scope of SM.